Imagination Technologies’ Power VR 3C Compression

Imagination has introduced a new compression scheme for GPUs that it claims provides visually lossless image compression with a guaranteed reduction in memory footprint. The company is offering its new PVRIC4, which is an image compression technology that it says will enable SoC customers targeting devices such as DTVs, smartphones, and tablets to reduce costs without a discernable loss of image quality. PVRIC4, says the company, enables random-access and visually lossless image compression, ensuring bandwidth and memory footprint savings of at least 50%. The company will provide PVRIC4 as a standalone IP block for SoC manufacturers to integrate into their